# Nearly time for TubaChristmas Chicago! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546 "2012-12-19T17:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/1 "2012-12-19T17:15:57Z")
It’s time once more for those of the tuba and euphonium intent converge on the Grand Ballroom at the Palmer House to bring Christmas cheer to Chicago. CHICAGO - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 - TIME: 1:00 pm LOCATION: Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St., Grand Ballroom For those of you who might wish to be a participant, here’s where you go for details: [TUBACHRISTMAS Locations](http://www.tubachristmas.com/readtcloc.php?TCState=IL) If you’re a player, get out your horn on Saturday and go make some music. If you’re an audience member, they need you to make this happen; otherwise it’s just a rehearsal in nice clothes. So go! ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/2 "2012-12-20T14:04:21Z")
As an expat Chicagoan, I’d dearly love to be there, even though I don’t play a tuba! Would audience participation be allowed, if I were to bring my ukuele?!!? :smack: 😃 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/3 "2012-12-20T15:21:34Z")
Cute, but no. Lower brass only, tubas and euphoniums and their kin. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/4 "2012-12-20T15:25:41Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Cute, but no. Lower brass only, tubas and euphoniums and their kin. It’s shocking to see this kind of bassism still being openly practiced in the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![Cheryl44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@Cheryl44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheryl44)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/5 "2012-12-20T21:16:14Z")
Perhaps with some planning you can join the ukelele Christmas orchestra next year. [http://www.musiccenter.org/events/activearts/UKULELE-CHRISTMAS-ORCHESTRA/](http://www.musiccenter.org/events/activearts/UKULELE-CHRISTMAS-ORCHESTRA/) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/6 "2012-12-21T19:55:09Z")
They used to have Tuba Christmas here in Montreal too. Lots of fun 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/7 "2012-12-23T05:02:32Z")
I just saw this now and me with an unexpected Saturday off with not much to do. Damn. So how’d it go? ---
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/8 "2012-12-24T02:29:00Z")
Tuba Christmas went GREAT!! It was larger than last year, with 358 Tubas. Incredibly rich sound that you could feel in your bones. There were some neat looking horns also. I liked the pink sousaphone. “Santa wants a tuba for Christmas” was fun. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-time-for-tubachristmas-chicago/644546/9 "2012-12-24T06:36:43Z")
Wish I could have been there. I have a neat old double-bell that’s always fun to play too. Maybe next year … if I make it to the Midwest Band Convention, which I also very much want to do. Let’s make it a date for next year, okay? 🙂